"Antagonisms." Special issue of The Comparatist

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The Comparatist

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zallouz@whitman.edu

Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist

We welcome contributions that examine the representation and staging of antagonism in comparative studies and literary theory. How might one conceive of antagonism today? Why are certain forms of antagonism readily made visible while others remain hidden—or simply disavowed? How does the field of literary studies manage its own antagonism(s)? Is antagonism—antagonistic rivalry between critics—a hindrance to the faithful work of interpretation? Or is it better understood as, or in terms of, the field’s engine of change? Topics of interest could include:

Theories of antagonism
Manifestos
The included and the excluded
Islamophobia
Postcolonial critique
Global flows and frictions
The incommensurability of ethics and aesthetics
Dialogics and its discontents
Antagonism versus dialectics
Antagonistic narratives
Feminism and sexual difference
The rivalry of psychoanalysis and deconstruction
The antagonism of ideologies/the ideology of antagonisms

Interested contributors should submit a 1-page abstract by April 1, 2012 to zallouz@whitman.edu. Deadline for completed articles will be September 1, 2012.

cfp categories:

african-american

american

classical_studies

cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches

ecocriticism_and_environmental_studies

eighteenth_century

ethnicity_and_national_identity

film_and_television

gender_studies_and_sexuality

general_announcements

interdisciplinary

journals_and_collections_of_essays

medieval

modernist studies

poetry

popular_culture

postcolonial

renaissance

science_and_culture

theatre

theory

twentieth_century_and_beyond

victorian

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